[pkg-kolab] cyrus-imapd 2.3.16

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Hello dear pkg-kolab,

In light of this upstream release, and the packaging efforts over at kolab.org 
as well as Kolab Systems, I would want to share some of the work I'm doing as 
to avoid duplication, and to hopefully gain some insight on how you work on 
packaging Kolab for Debian as a whole, and learn to work with you -I'm not a 
blessed Debian packager ;-)

First of all, let me thank you for the efforts you've put in making pkg-kolab 
native packages available to Debian (and inherently Ubuntu).

Secondly, and please do correct me if I'm wrong, it is my understanding that 
nobody has yet worked / published Debian packages for cyrus-imapd-2.3.x -is 
that correct?

Thirdly, with regards to cyrus-imapd-2.3.x, what is your opinion on pushing 
such to -maybe- Debian unstable/experimental, provided someone is willing to 
do the packaging work?

Fourthly, since Kolab Systems had a business interest in native packages for 
Debian as well as Ubuntu, we are going to have to work on the packaging and 
quality assurance; but we have different requirements to product support and 
functionality then most distributions have or allow;

That said, speaking for Fedora / Red Hat / CentOS / EPEL, in which realm I am 
a very much experienced packager, one of the obvious truths is that kolab-
cyrus-imapd simply won't be allowed in the sense that it is essentially a fork 
for cyrus-imapd and the philosophy is to submit the work upstream before 
including it in the distribution or repository.

That being as it may, I would appreciate your feedback on anything that I do 
for Kolab Systems that is somehow mutually exclusive with the APT packaging 
guidelines -in which you are and probably will be for a long time to come, 
much more experienced then I am. I would want to work on making what is part 
of my job and your awesome work as easy as possible for you all.

Point in case is also, that since pkg-kolab is a Subversion repository, I'm 
unable to push out my work somewhere you can find/consume it, such being a 
different repository over at Kolab Systems infrastructure. I regret that, but 
I hope you will appreciate that I'm doing what I can ;-)

If you are interested, please let me know. Here's a couple of resources in 
relation to our APT packaging efforts;

http://git.kolabsys.com/apt/kolab-cyrus-imapd/

http://mirror.kolabsys.com/pub/debian/

Again, and I cannot emphasize this enough, your feedback is much appreciated!

Kind regards,

-- 
Jeroen van Meeuwen
Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG

e: vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com
t: +316 42 801 403
w: http://www.kolabsys.com

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